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<i> Film Director Emily Harrold thanks the Robinson family May 8 at the 2013 Robinson International Short Film Competition. Harrold’s film “Reporting on the Times: The New York Times and the Holocaust” was given the Kesef Award. Five short films were shown at the gala, and three awards were given in honor of the memory of Sanford N. Robinson Sr. (Chronicle photo by Lindsay Dill)</i>
‘Castaways’ takes top honor at Robinson Short Film Competition
The passengers knew they were going to die. Rounded up by Nazis, they were on trains headed to the Treblinka death camp in Poland.  So they took a desperate measure. They threw their young children...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Lisa Lurie, one of the Cancer Be Glammed co-founders, on left, and Allderdice teacher Julie Farber, who with her top jewelry students in partnership with Pittsburgh-based website Cancer Be Glammed, paired the students with women coping with cancer in order to craft pieces of jewelry for them. Women were given their personalized jewelry May 4 at a gathering at the Summerset at Frick Park Community Center. (Photo courtesy of Paul Firemen)</i>
Cancer Be Glammed thanks to Allderdice jewelry class
An estimated 805,600 women will be diagnosed with some sort of cancer this year in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. And 79,560 of them, almost 10 percent, will be in Pen...
May 20, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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JF&CS holds annual meeting, examines impact of five-year plan
“The Imprint and Impact of Collaboration” was the theme at Jewish Family & Children’s Service’s annual meeting, held this past Monday evening at Rodef Shalom Congregation. Following a dessert recep...
May 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Recipents of the 2013 Awards of Excellence presented by the Jewish Agency for Israel for outstanding efforts in the Partnership2Gether (P2G) program are pictured here with their award. They are, from left to right, Charlene Tissenbaum, chair of the P2G Youth Kesher (Connection) Committee; Jan Levinson, P2G co-chair; Andrea Arbel, director of the Partnership Unit, Jewish Agency for Israel; Cindy Goodman Leib, P2G co-chair; Sue Linzer, Jewish Federation associate director of planning and director of overseas operations; and Debbie Swartz, Pittsburgh P2G coordinator. (Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh photo)</i>
Jewish Pittsburgh, partner communities, garner JAFI award for P2G project
The Pittsburgh Jewish community received First Place recognition in the 2013 Awards of Excellence presented by the Jewish Agency for Israel for outstanding efforts in the Partnership2Gether (P2G) p...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chabad to stage May 29 women’s concert at CMU
The musical and artistic talents of Pittsburgh’s Jewish women will be celebrated Wednesday, May 29, at a communitywide event for women hosted by Chabad of Pittsburgh. The concert, which will be hel...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Robert Rehák</i>
Metro Briefs May 16
Robert Řehák , cultural attaché at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington, D.C., will speak on “The History and Legends of the Jews in Prague,” Sunday, May 19, at 4 p.m. at the Ellis Scho...
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<i> Twin sisters Betty Kane and Judy Meyers play a piano duet in their Squirrel Hill home. Despite the twins’ blindness since birth, they’ve become accomplished pianists, and they often volunteer their musical services at community events. (Chronicle photo by Lindsay Dill)</i>
Sightless sisters make a lifetime of music
They sit next to each other on a piano bench covered with a pink pillow.  Playing in tandem, their fingers effortlessly glide up and down the piano keys, not missing a single note. The old Baldwin ...
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<i> Rabbi Ezra Ende lifts high a Torah during a recent Simchat Torah celebration with members of the Kiryat HaYovel Chavura community in Jerusalem. (Kiryat HaYovel Chavura photo)</i>
Ezra Ende returns to Pittsburgh; touts new ‘community’ in Jerusalem neighborhood
Rabbi Ezra Ende is so committed to religious pluralism in Jerusalem that he’s working to develop a new congregation to preserve it. The former associate rabbi at Temple Sinai, is revisiting Pittsbu...
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<i>Michael Levin, for whom the Lone Soldier Center is named, was killed in the Lebanon War of 2006.</i>
Israeli lone soldiers need help
You can find lone soldiers everywhere in Israeli society, Idan Ianovici said, which indicates just how great is the challenge he faces. “A lone soldier is a soldier who can’t live in their parent’...
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JHF leaders talk health care issues at Korean conference
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Two Jewish Healthcare Foundation leaders recently traveled to the Far East, where they traded opinions and knowledge on a range of health care issues, including perfecting patient care. JHF Preside...
New JAA benevolent care fund should assist baby boomers as they age
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The number of people in the United States age 65 and older is expected to more than double between 2012 and 2060, from 43.1 million to 92 million, according to projections by the U.S. Census Bureau...
The community came out for an ice sculpture chanukia (menora) lighting at Schenley Park's ice rink.
by Lindsay Dill photos
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Agency for Jewish Learning board member Jay Fingeret and Pittsburgh Councilman Corey O’Connor light an ice sculpture chanukia (menora), Thursday, Dec. 13, at the Schenley Park ice rink. The chanuki...
Jewish Pittsburgh responds to Newtown shootings
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
In the wake of the horrific mass murder perpetrated in Newton, Conn., last Friday by a 20-year-old, Jewish Pittsburghers joined the rest of the country in focusing on issues of security, empathy an...
Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh student wins National Menora Essay Contest
by Release
Dec 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Watch Dovid Moritz read his winning essay Dovid Moritz had a starring role Tuesday at the lighting of the National Menora near the White House on the first night of Chanuka. The fourth-grade...
Grand Menorah Lighting featuring CMU’s Bagpipe Band
Dec 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Grand menora lighting features CMU’s Bagpipe Band Chabad of Carnegie Mellon University brought the CMU Jewish community together Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 5:30 p.m. to light a 9-foot menora in the ...
Metro Briefs December 13
Dec 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a free concert, Monday, Dec. 17, 8 p.m., at Rodef Shalom Congregation, featuring the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s conc...
CDS considers adding pre-K level to the day school program
Dec 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Community Day School is exploring the possibility of offering a pre-K class in the fall of 2013.  CDS is the only private K-eight school in the area that does not have a pre-K program, according...
Butler: Pittsburgh can educate state legislative leaders on Jewish issues
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Dec 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
When it comes to statewide political issues of concern to Jews, Hank Butler thinks Jewish Pittsburgh is in a very unique position.    Speaking last week at a meeting of the Pittsburgh Area Jewish C...
JCC players put up solid numbers, but team falls to K-M in game 1 of tourney
by Jesse Irwin, Chronicle Correspondent
Dec 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
The Pittsburgh Jewish community took a break from watching the Middle Eastern conflict to watching a friendly international exhibition game Sunday between the Jewish Community Center  varsity baske...